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La voix des airs (1931) by Ren\u00e9 Magritte.<\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “Gangsters<\/em> is to the 1970s what The Prisoner<\/em> was to the 1960s\u2014a playful, knowing and mildly crazed production but today it bears an important warning from the past to us.” John Quin<\/a> on the extraordinary vitality of Philip Martin’s Play For Today<\/em> and the BBC drama serial spun-off from it.<\/p>\n \u2022 New music: Juxtapositions<\/em><\/a> by Boddy | Scanner; Embodied Shadow Of Thy Secret Mind<\/em><\/a> by Philippe Blache; Light on Water<\/em><\/a> by Modern Apartments.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Public Domain Review: Metamorphosis: Transformations in the Early Modern Flap Book (early 19th century)<\/a>.<\/p>\n Maeterlinck would write of [The Great God Pan<\/em>], \u201cit is, I believe, the attempt had been made to combine the traditional, or diabolical Fantasy with the new scientific kind, and that such a mixture has produced the most disturbing work I have ever come across\u201d. Maeterlinck\u2019s description of Machen serves as a tidy introduction to the crux of Ray\u2019s writings too. A writer equally perplexed, intrigued, and possessed by the \u201cthe terrifying, hypergeometric, fourth dimension\u201d. Ray\u2019s works span the thin fabric of reality, piercing through into other eternal worlds and abducted by its eternal horror. Ray\u2019s worlds are numerous realities battling one another, overlapping, mimicking, and distorting; it is an evocation of time and space as a battle-field of alternativities, governed by strange supernatural forces, notably angels or the occult.<\/p>\n The London of the Imagination<\/a>, an examination of the fictional metropolis as it manifests in the stories of Belgian writer, Jean Ray<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n \u2022 Mixes of the week: A Slomo mix<\/a> for The Invisible College, and DreamScenes \u2013 September 2026<\/a> at Ambientblog.<\/p>\n \u2022 At Colossal: “Spanning 200+ works, a new book celebrates the world of fungi<\/a>“.<\/p>\n \u2022 The Electric Music Machine: Five Days at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop<\/em><\/a> (1988).<\/p>\n \u2022 Steven Heller’s font of the month is Ege Basalt<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Matt Cargill\u2019s favourite albums<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 RIP Jeremy Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u2022 Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a> (1970) by Ananda Shankar | Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a> (1995) by Pet Shop Boys | Metamorphosis<\/em><\/a> (2012) by Demdike Stare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"